Anthropology

Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, April-July, 2002

BATTLE OF TALLLASEEHATCHEE: ALABAMA IN THE WAR OF 1812. Harry 0. Holstein, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265. Phillip E. Koerper, Department of History and Foreign Language, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265. Brigitte F. Cole, Department of History and Social Scienccs, Benedict College, Columbia, SC 29204.

On November 3, 1813, one thousand militiamen under the command of General John Coffee attacked a Red Stick Creek Indian village. In the course of the battle, 186 Creek Indians and five Tennessee militiamen were killed. Archaeological and historical research indicates the archaeological site of 1Cal62, near Alexandria, Alabama, is the location of this major military encounter in the War of 1812. Extensive historical research provided new insight into the battle's participants while generating significant topographic data. Archaeological research resulted in the recovery of sufficient 19th century Creek and military artifacts to warrant 1Cal62 as the best candidate for the Battle of Tallasseehatchee.

THE DOMESTICATION OF THE DOG IN GENERAL--AND DOG BURIAL RESEARCH IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. Brigitte F. Cole, Department of History and Social Sciences, Benedict College, Columbia, SC 29204. Phillip E. Koerper, Department of History and Foreign Languages, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265.

Several problems concerning the domestication of the dog have challenged anthropologists for decades. The previously accepted views of the dog's origins, method of domestication and approximate evolutionary dates are now being challenged by new scientific methods such as mitochondrial DNA. A much earlier date for the appearance of the dog could provide new approaches to assessing archaeological data. This paper concludes by examining selective dog burials in the southeastern United States and the conclusions of several anthropologists.

TOLBERT FARM, A LATE PALEO-EARLY ARCHAIC SITE COMPLEX NEAR JACKSONVILLE, ALABAMA. Harry O. Holstein, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265. Phillip E. Koerper, Department of History and Foreign Language, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265, and Brigitte F. Cole, Department of History and Social Sciences, Benedict College, Columbia, SC 29204.

The Tolbert Farm Complex is located along a tributary branch of Tallasseehatchee Creek. These sites are of interest for two reasons: one, the diversity and density of late Palco/Early Archaic bifaces recovered from the complex as compared to other regional archaic sites; and two, the fact that these sites lie nearly twenty miles east of the Coosa River along a small tributary branch. Researchers believe the geographical location of the Tolbert farm complex along little Tallasseehatchee creek, whose headwaters originate in White's Gap providing a major east/west entry across Choccolocco Mountain, may explain the presence of this prolific early site complex.